Maximum likelihood estimation of human craniometric heritabilities

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-180

  Carson, E Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial measurement; Genetic variation; ML; Pedigree analysis; Variance components analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CRANIOMETRY; EVOLUTION; FACE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEIGHT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT; ORBIT; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA; CEPHALOMETRY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SKULL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33748649253     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20424     Document Type: Article

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